Category: Reviews
The Best Plane Movie You’ll See This Month
The Best Plane Movie You’ll See This Month

PLANE is a great date movie option that you should absolutely consider if you’re weighing your options.  In the white-knuckle action movie PLANE, pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on…

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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Review: A Wonderful Gift
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Review: A Wonderful Gift

We live in a fast-paced world. Distractions around every corner, followed closely by judgments, and opinions, which naturally leads to division. Social media does its best to make you feel less than others, to make sure you know that you…

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Zoe Saldaña Discovers The Importance Of Family Under The Florentine Sun
Zoe Saldaña Discovers The Importance Of Family Under The Florentine Sun

Based on a memoir by Tembi Locke, who developed the miniseries with her sister Attica Locke (“When They See Us”), “From Scratch” is a heartfelt, if sometimes overlong, story of two very different families becoming one through love and loss.…

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A Shot in the Arm
A Shot in the Arm

PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! When the pandemic lockdown occurred in 2020, unbeknownst to all of us, we were on the cusp of a change in society, a division of thinking that no one could have predicted. COVID-19…

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John Krasinski Can’t Run From Tepid Action Thriller
John Krasinski Can’t Run From Tepid Action Thriller

Home TV Reviews 'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' Season 3 Review: John Krasinski Can't Run From This Tepid Action Thriller If you have to choose between action series centered around characters named Jack, your best bet is to go with Reacher…

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Saunders’ Timely Feature Debut Is Heartfelt & Humorous
Saunders’ Timely Feature Debut Is Heartfelt & Humorous

Home Movie Reviews Dotty & Soul Review: Saunders' Timely Feature Debut Is Heartfelt & Humorous [SDIFF] It’s clichéd and predictable, but Dotty & Soul is sincere in showing how people can learn from past mistakes when given time to put…

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Race2Dinner Documentary Only Scratches the Surface [Mill Valley FF]
Race2Dinner Documentary Only Scratches the Surface [Mill Valley FF]

Eight upper-middle-class, suburban white women arrive at a dinner party in the opening moments of Patty Ivins Specht’s “Deconstructing Karen.” Hosted by activist Regina Jackson and former Colorado congressional candidate Saira Rao, through their start-up Race2Dinner, the women are immediately…

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A Testament to the Endurance of Practical Effects
A Testament to the Endurance of Practical Effects

If you never had the chance to watch Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s The Dark Crystal, the first thing you’ll probably notice is how good the movie looks. Despite being initially released in 1982, The Dark Crystal still looks better…

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Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Review
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Review

This review was originally part of our 2022 Venice Film Festival coverage. In the past 70 years, Alejandro G. Iñárritu is the only director to win the Best Director Oscar in back-to-back years (for Birdman and then The Revenant). That…

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The Retaliators | Film Threat
The Retaliators | Film Threat

The Die Hard holiday brutality subgenre is alive and living in New Jersey, as evidenced by the over-the-edge Christmas thriller The Retaliators, directed by Samuel Gonzalez Jr., Michael Lombardi, and Bridget Smith. The screenplay by Darren Geare and Jeff Allen Geare introduces the…

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Asif Kapadia’s Film Of ‘Woyzeck’ Ballet Breathes New Life Into A Fiery Play [LFF]
Asif Kapadia’s Film Of ‘Woyzeck’ Ballet Breathes New Life Into A Fiery Play [LFF]

When it first ran as an English National Ballet production in 2021, “Creature” received some fairly damning reviews from the UK theater critics. It was branded pitilessly inaccessible, muddled in its execution, and irredeemably gloomy in its outlook. A year…

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Gray’s Latest is Uninspiring & Noncommittal [SDIFF]
Gray’s Latest is Uninspiring & Noncommittal [SDIFF]

Home Movie Reviews Armageddon Time Review: Gray’s Latest is Uninspiring & Noncommittal [SDIFF] Armageddon Time excels at capturing naiveté, but under commits to sharing the truths of racial disparity when it comes to the American dream. Michael Banks Repeta and…

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